A long while back there was a company called Think Outside, and they produced, among other things, keyboards for mobile devices.
Jul 312011
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Earlier this week, Microsoft officially RTM’d Mango (Check out Mike Halsey’s post) and is currently shipping the OS to manufacturers and carriers for testing purposes. It’s widely felt that Windows Phone Mango is set to drop sometime in September, but Windows Phone is just an OS, the other half of the equation is the actual handsets that the OS runs on. We’ve heard and seen leaks and rumors that manufactures are gearing up for a big fall release of devices for the new platform, but a report by DigiTimes is citing sources that a number of Windows Phone device manufacturers are preparing for a September launch to likely go head-to-head with Apple’s rumored iPhone 5.
So far, we have seen actual devices from Samsung, HTC, Acer, ZTE and Fujitsu-Toshiba. And we have seen renderings from LG for a device to drop sometime in 2011. This is likely to be the lineup to launch against the very popular rumored next-iPhone, with insiders noting that manufacturers are preparing “a number of Mango phones, powered by Qualcomm 1.5GHz single-core CPUs with display sizes ranging from 3.8- to 4.7-inch.”
Then there’s Nokia, the proposed savior of the OS. And for that matter, Windows Phone is considered to be the savior of Nokia. After months of shedding mobile market share, Nokia hopes to tie its future to Microsoft and its emerging product. Nokia might be dwindling down in the mobile market, but their mind share in other countries is still very strong. Microsoft hopes to capitalize on this presence by combining the Nokia hardware with the Windows Phone OS. Nokia has now committed to releasing a device in 2011, “at a time when fellow vendors have already heated up the market for Mango phones.”
The latest report by Nielsen shows that Microsoft commands a 9% piece of the smartphone market. This includes both Windows Mobile and the Windows Phone OS and based on the speed at which old Windows Mobile has been ceding market share, the numbers are likely an indicator that Windows Phone is slowly growing and starting to eat up some of those previous users.
So, it’s an exciting time to be following the mobile market and with heavy hitters like Microsoft and Apple set to duel in the Fall, it should be something to watch. We know that hoards of Apple users will be lining up to hand over their cash to get a new iPhone because, well, that’s what they do, but will the rest of the world look to a new and exciting smartphone platform for their next device. We’ll have to wait and see.
I’m curious. I use a Windows Phone with the current Mango beta and love it. If you are not a Windows Phone user, let me know in the comments what’s keeping you from trying Microsoft’s mobile reboot. Is it a dislike of the Metro UI, a feature that’s lacking, stuck in a current contract, or just don’t trust Microsoft when it comes to mobile. I’d love to hear your thought’s on Windows Phone and what may be keeping you away.
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Jul 072011
Microsoft is the ultimate under-achiever in mobile. They have always talked the talk, and consistently failed to walk the walk.
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Microsoft’s LightSwitch to Launch on July 26. This program will give developers a simpler and faster way to create high-quality business applications for the desktop and the cloud. LightSwitch is a new addition to the Visual Studio family.
Create Custom Business Applications
Microsoft may not be winning the Mobile Phone war, but it is certainly on top of the PC war. With LightSwitch Microsoft hopes to let developers build custom applications that rival off-the-shelf solutions. In this way, when developers want to pursue more serious applications that are not “Apps” Microsoft shows a way to do this. There will be pre-configured screen templates that give your application a familiar look and feel. There is prewritten code and other reusable components to handle routine application tasks, along with step-by-step guidance tools. However, if you need to write custom code, you can use Visual Basic .NET or C#. You can deploy to the desktop, browser, or cloud to share your application with others more easily without the cumbersome installation processes.
System Data Access
LightSwitch supports exporting data to Excel, and you can also attach your application to existing data sources like SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Azure, SharePoint, Microsoft Office Access (post-Beta), and other third-party data sources.
Lightswitch will also allow developers to create custom applications in tune with the way you do business. This will let developers build a scalable application that matches your current needs now and in the future. This doesn’t tie developers down to current technologies. Indeed, applications can grow to meet the technical demands of applications using the Microsoft Windows Azure Cloud Hosting option.
Extend Applications
The development environment for LightSwitch is Visual Studio. With this tool LightSwitch includes a lot of pre-built components . LightSwitch applications will support extensions for templates, data sources, shells, themes, business data types and custom controls. Get extensions from component vendors or develop them yourself using Visual Studio Professional, Premium or Ultimate.
You can compare Lightswitch with Visual studio.
You can download the Lightswitch Beta Version.
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Mar 272011
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